House Republicans have debuted key border security legislation to put an end to the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border as the mass migration phenomenon rolls into year three.
On Monday, House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green and GOP committee members introduced the Border Reinforcement Act of 2023, a proposal for which Republicans spent two years hammering out the details, particularly in the last three months of meetings with federal law enforcement and nongovernmental organizations during trips to the U.S.-Mexico border and hearings in Washington.
Three committee aides with firsthand knowledge of the bill said this border bill is meant to complement the House Judiciary Committee’s recently passed Border Security and Enforcement Act, not to compete with it. However, the two bills will be combined into one package once the border security legislation is marked up and passed by the homeland security panel.
The homeland security proposal was borne out of the American Security Task Force’s work. Former New York GOP Rep. John Katko, then the ranking member of homeland security, convened the task force in 2021 to begin working on border policy reforms that the House GOP could agree on and therefore be ready to move on if the party won back the majority in November 2022.
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